Companies with global equity plans should be aware of their reporting obligations with respect to their equity awards. This client alert highlights key reporting obligations in certain countries related to equity plan activity for the prior calendar year (i.e., 2024) and ongoing obligations during calendar-year 2025.
Managing healthcare costs often feels like an endless struggle for benefits professionals, employers, and employees. Nevertheless, benefits professionals persist in their efforts to control escalating healthcare expenses.
In this article, Alden Bianchi and industry members share their predictions about the healthcare landscape, zeroing in on primary care, weight loss drug coverage, the Affordable Care Act, and artificial intelligence.
Following a dynamic year, coupled with a continually evolving legal landscape, employers face increasing regulatory compliance, organized labor advances, technological changes, challenges in protecting company information and retaining talent, and new litigation trends.
In a recent webinar, McDermott’s industry-leading employment team unpacked the most pertinent legal updates and provided tips and action items to get ahead in 2025. They discussed new laws taking effect in the new year, explored key developments impacting management and the workforce, and provided guidance on what employers can anticipate this year.
In this recently recorded webinar, McDermott+’s Debbie Curtis and Rodney Whitlock discuss the outcomes of the 2024 election, potential healthcare policy changes under the new administration and Congress, and the implications of election outcomes on healthcare policy heading into the lame duck session and in 2025.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced the cost-of-living adjustments to the applicable dollar limits for various employer-sponsored retirement and welfare plans for 2025. Most of the dollar limits that are subject to adjustment for cost-of-living increases will increase for 2025. The Social Security Administration released separate adjustment amounts.
On April 10, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) posted the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) proposed update for fiscal year (FY) 2025, along with proposed policy and regulation changes. The proposed rule would update Medicare payment policies and quality reporting programs relevant for inpatient hospital services, and build on key agency priorities, including advancing health equity and improving the safety and quality of care.
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